Church helps homeless with sleeping pads made out of recycled bags
and last updated 2021-07-18 22:08:35-04
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Helping Tallahassee s most vulnerable, and the environment, Ellen Oetau and other members of Good Samaritan Methodist Church are making mats out of plastic bags for the city s homeless. I hope this is a help to the homeless community that s the main thing, said Oetau. But in the process, we are also keeping the bags out of the landfills.
Big Bend Continuum of Care s annual report reveals although homelessness is down 29% while around 3,000 people are homeless in Leon County every year.
Cold weather overnight shelter to open in Tallahassee Thursday, Friday nights
WTXL
Posted at 12:10 PM, Dec 16, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-16 12:10:26-05
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â City and county governments, along with community partners in Tallahassee, are offering free rides to overnight shelters Thursday and Friday night as temperatures drop across the region.
Anyone needing shelter on these nights is being told to The Good Samaritan Thrift Store located at 2706 North Monroe Street at 7 p.m.
From there, those in need will be transported to a community partner site via a StarMetro bus to shelter overnight and leave the following morning at 7 a.m.